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  2. Westlaw - Wikipedia

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    Westlaw is an online legal research service and proprietary database for lawyers and legal professionals available in over 60 countries. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources.

  3. Computer-assisted legal research - Wikipedia

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    Computer-assisted legal research (CALR) [1] or computer-based legal research is a mode of legal research that uses databases of court opinions, statutes, court documents, and secondary material. Electronic databases make large bodies of case law easily available.

  4. West American Digest System - Wikipedia

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    The headnotes are arranged according to their topic and key number in multi-volume sets of books called Digests. A digest serves as a subject index to the case law published in West reporters. Headnotes are merely editorial guides to the points of law discussed or used in the cases, and the headnotes themselves are not legal authority.

  5. National Reporter System - Wikipedia

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    The NRS is available at law libraries throughout the United States, and is also available through online legal research databases like Westlaw and LexisNexis. Since the NRS now comprises over 10,000 volumes, [1] and many older cases have been overruled or superseded, only the largest law libraries keep a complete hard copy set on site. Most law ...

  6. Legal research in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A common research strategy is to use "one good case" to find related cases. Legal forms can be some of the hardest documents to find because one person may call a form by one name while another person knows it by an entirely different name (neither of which may be the actual, official name of the form).

  7. Thomson Reuters had the first big win in an AI copyright case ...

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    Thomson Reuters sued the now-shuttered legal AI startup Ross Intelligence in 2020, arguing that Ross infringed its copyrights when the startup used content from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw legal ...

  8. Shepard's Citations - Wikipedia

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    Shepard's Citations is a citator used in United States legal research that provides a list of all the authorities citing a particular case, statute, or other legal authority. [1] The verb Shepardizing (sometimes written lower-case) refers to the process of consulting Shepard's to see if a case has been overturned, reaffirmed, questioned, or ...

  9. Legal information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the law is generally filled with open-ended terms, which may change over time. [7] This can be especially true in common law countries, where each decided case can subtly change the meaning of a certain word or phrase. [8] Legal information systems must also be programmed to deal with law-specific words and phrases. Though this is less ...